Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Shields, Carol

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

21.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

22.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

23.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

24.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

26.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

27.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

28.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

29.

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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 is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

40.

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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

45.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril