Motivational Quotes

Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

- Butler, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Temple, Sir William

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Miller, Henry

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.