Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Dryden, John

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Socrates

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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 dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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 at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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