Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Welsh, John

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Camus, Albert

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein