Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Menander of Athens

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

Burns, George

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Samuel Butler

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Kempton, Murray