Motivational Quotes

Life

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Powell, Robert

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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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 just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred