Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Life

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Duncan, Isadora

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Antrim, Minna

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey