Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

- Wally'Famous'Amos

Best Quotes about Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Pope John XXIII

Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bacon, Francis

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Santayana, George

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Southey, Robert

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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

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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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

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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