Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Kant, Immanuel

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Camus, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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