Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Life

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Prochnow, Herbert

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Mark Hodder

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Socrates

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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.

Daniel Akst

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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