Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Facult, F. Paul

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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 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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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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William