Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Hume, David

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Camus, Albert

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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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 a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Landers, Ann

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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

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

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Walpole, Horace

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges