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

To a wise man every day is a new life.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

10.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

12.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

13.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

14.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

19.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

25.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

27.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

28.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

32.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

41.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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

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

Ovid