Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

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

Ben Stein

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

Wright, Steven

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Pope John XXIII

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.