Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Gellert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Barrymore, John

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Making a life comes before making a living.