Motivational Quotes

Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

- Debevoise, P. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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)

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Santayana, George

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

Dickens, Charles

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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 not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Gurney, Robert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.