Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Crisp, Quentin

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Daniel Akst

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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.

Caddy, Eileen

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Aristotle

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell