Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Temple, Sir William

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Jordan, David Starr

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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 is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Austen, Jane

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Brendan Gill

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Butler, Samuel

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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 is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Baluch, Joy

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick