Motivational Quotes

Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Michelangelo

12.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

24.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Coallier, Steven

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

33.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca