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

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

Live poor so you can die rich.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lennon, John

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L