Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Pope John XXIII

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De