Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Coriolanus III

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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 earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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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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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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.