Motivational Quotes

Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Coriolanus III

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Debevoise, P. L.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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

11.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur