Motivational Quotes

Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

10.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

36.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Linkletter, Art

49.

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

Austen, Jane

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf