Motivational Quotes

Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

- Prather, Hugh

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Pliny The Elder

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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

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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 is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

John Lennon

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.