Motivational Quotes

Life

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Life

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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 City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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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

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Dante Alighieri

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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 longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey