Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Clark, Frank A.

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Nash, Ogden

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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 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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.