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

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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 have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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