Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Miller, Henry

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

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Brendan Gill

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

13.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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'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