Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Santaguida, Paul

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

Foreman, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

12.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Blake, William

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph