Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Life

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

Santayana, George

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Dickens, Charles

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

11.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

12.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Gurney, Robert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Aristotle

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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]

Bible

43.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Dane, Frank

49.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.