Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Powell, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Lehrer, Tom

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul