Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Feidelson, Charles

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Moses, Grandma

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Erickson, Lou

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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 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