Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Douglas, Michael

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Coriolanus III

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

28.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis