Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dimnet, Ernest

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Herold, Don

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Welsh, John

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Temple, Sir William

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.