Motivational Quotes

Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

- Augustus, Caesar

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Larkin, Philip

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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 is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Welsh, John

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.