Motivational Quotes

Life

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Douglas, Michael

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Carson, Johnny

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 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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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Baluch, Joy

37.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

39.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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.

43.

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

McMillan, Terry

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.