Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

10.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

12.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

16.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

17.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

18.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

19.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

23.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

28.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

33.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

34.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

36.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

37.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

38.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

44.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

47.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

49.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.