Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Osler, Sir William

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Keller, Helen

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

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

31.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques