Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Cook, Robert A.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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 two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welsh, John

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Samuel Butler

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Simon, Neil

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Dickens, Charles

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green