Motivational Quotes

Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cousteau, Jacques

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

William Shakespeare

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Linkletter, Art

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Canetti, Elias

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don