Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Lin-Chi

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kempton, Murray

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Calhoun, John C.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Proverb, Indian

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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