Motivational Quotes

Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Aristotle

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Landers, Ann

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Michelangelo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace