Motivational Quotes

Life

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Blake, William

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

10.

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

Proverb, Persian

11.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

12.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

17.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

18.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

19.

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

Herold, Don

20.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Tomlin, Lily

24.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

25.

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

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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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

28.

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

29.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

30.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

31.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

33.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

35.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

36.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

37.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

38.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

39.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

40.

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

Foreman, George

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.