Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

- Gables, Anne Of Green

Best Quotes about Life

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Caesar, Sid

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Foreman, George

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Nash, Ogden

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Proverb, Scottish

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Giles, Henry