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

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Allen, Fred A.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Broun, Heywood

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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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

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

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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 what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard