Motivational Quotes

Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Foreman, George

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

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.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

11.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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

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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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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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 is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Simon, Neil