Motivational Quotes

Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

- Nisami

Best Quotes about Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

32.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Kempton, Murray

37.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

42.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.