Motivational Quotes

Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

James, William

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Aristotle

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

12.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

18.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

20.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

21.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Austen, Jane

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Temple, Sir William

26.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Hume, David

34.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Coallier, Steven

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

47.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou