Motivational Quotes

Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Socrates

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

27.

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

28.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

31.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John