Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is recruited from the country.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Coriolanus III

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Baluch, Joy

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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 constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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 get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Pliny The Elder

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William