Motivational Quotes

Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Butler, Samuel

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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Powell, Robert

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Simon, Neil

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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