Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Socrates

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.