Motivational Quotes

Life

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

- Mills, C. Wright

Best Quotes about Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein