Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

- Galiani, Ferdinando

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.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.