Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Facult, F. Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Aristotle

Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

McMillan, Terry

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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.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank 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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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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

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Herold, Don

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

Mark Hodder

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.