Motivational Quotes

Life

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

- Conrad, Peter

Best Quotes about Life

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

11.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Nash, Ogden

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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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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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

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

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

Bible

38.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom