Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Larkin, Philip

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Aristotle

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

Horace

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life itself is the proper binge.