Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

- Carpentier, Georges

Best Quotes about Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Truman Capote

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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 is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Samuel Butler

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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 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

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Pope John XXIII

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Carson, Johnny