Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Thibodeau, Robert

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

12.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Isaac Asimov

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

20.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

21.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

22.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

30.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

31.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

32.

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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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

35.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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 life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

46.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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.