Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves the liver of it.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Kempton, Murray

11.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

12.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

14.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

16.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

19.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

20.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

21.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

23.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

26.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

30.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

31.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Forster, Edward M.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Nash, Ogden

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

44.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder