Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Young, J. Z.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Tomlin, Lily

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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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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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

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heath, David M.

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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

39.

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene