Motivational Quotes

Life

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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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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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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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