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

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Douglas, Michael

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Facult, F. Paul

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

23.

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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

34.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Baluch, Joy

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

40.

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

41.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.