Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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.

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Kempis, Thomas

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand