Motivational Quotes

Life

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

- Cowper, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

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

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

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Temple, Sir William

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Blackie, Professor

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey