Motivational Quotes

Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Simon, Neil

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.