Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Daniel Akst

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

Dane, Frank

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Goldman

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Burns, George

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Santayana, George

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lin-Chi

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Miller, Henry

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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