Motivational Quotes

Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

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

Brendan Gill

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Linkletter, Art

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

43.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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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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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl