Motivational Quotes

Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

John Lennon

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

13.

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

Herold, Don

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr