Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Temple, Sir William

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

10.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

11.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

19.

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

Kempton, Murray

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

21.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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 city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

25.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Clark, Frank A.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

33.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

42.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

43.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

James, William