Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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 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.

14.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Kempton, Murray

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.