Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

- Gurney, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Camus, Albert

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

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

12.

Making a life comes before making a living.

13.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

James, William

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van