Motivational Quotes

Life

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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Best Quotes about Life

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

William Shakespeare

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

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Gable, Clark

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

11.

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

Kempton, Murray

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

13.

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

Coallier, Steven

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

15.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

16.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

17.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

20.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

21.

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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

24.

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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

27.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

28.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

29.

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

Simon, Neil

30.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

31.

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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

33.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

35.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

38.

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

39.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

40.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

41.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

44.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

45.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

49.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

50.

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