Motivational Quotes

Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Kempton, Murray

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Canetti, Elias

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard