Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herold, Don

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Canetti, Elias

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

William Goldman

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Powell, Robert

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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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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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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