Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Salisbury, Harrison

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Camus, Albert

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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]

Bible

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Herold, Don

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Welsh, John

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote