Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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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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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

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Socrates

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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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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Coriolanus III

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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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

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

William Shakespeare

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Isaac Asimov

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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