Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Best Quotes about Life

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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 purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

14.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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 a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

29.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Truman Capote

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

33.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

34.

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

Michelangelo

35.

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

Landers, Ann

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

37.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

38.

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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Butler, Samuel

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art