Motivational Quotes

Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Simon, Neil

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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]

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Horace

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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

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Gellert

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Alacia Bessette

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

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