Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Santayana, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Young, J. Z.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John