Motivational Quotes

Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Welsh, John

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Aristotle

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda