Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Gurney, Robert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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'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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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 is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel