Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dane, Frank

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose