Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

- Huxtable, Ada Louise

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Austen, Jane

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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 about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Harington, Donald