Motivational Quotes

Life

Life too near paralyses art.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lennon, John

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ciardi, John

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

Leno, Jay

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

Rogers, Carl

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Heath, David M.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Menander of Athens

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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 great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Keller, Helen

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh