Motivational Quotes

Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

Best Quotes about Life

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pepper, Claude D.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Seneca

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Feidelson, Charles

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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