Motivational Quotes

Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Best Quotes about Life

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Hayes, Helen

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lennon, John

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane