Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Michelangelo

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Austen, Jane

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul