Motivational Quotes

Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

John Lennon

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.