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

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

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

Keller, Helen

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Coriolanus III

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Temple, Sir William

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