Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Orben, Robert

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Nouwen, Henri

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Ciardi, John

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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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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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Horace

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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