Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

- Ransom, Ralph

Best Quotes about Life

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

William Goldman

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Simon, Neil

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Socrates

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.