Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Powell, Robert

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Landers, Ann

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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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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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

John Lennon

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl