Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gurney, Robert

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Powell, Robert

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Michelangelo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Bruyere, Jean De