Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is recruited from the country.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

William Shakespeare

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Thomas, Dylan

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

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