Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Life

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

Daniel Akst

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

Michelangelo

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Conrad, Joseph

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Lebowitz, Fran

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Heath, David M.

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

Baluch, Joy

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur