Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cioran, E. M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Allen, Fred A.

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nash, Ogden

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Powell, Robert

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welsh, John

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Temple, Sir William

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Foreman, George