Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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 catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

39.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Dryden, John

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hanks, Tom