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

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gurney, Robert

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.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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.