Motivational Quotes

Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

- Herrick, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

12.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

16.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

17.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

26.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

28.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

29.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

30.

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

Duncan, Isadora

31.

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

Bible

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

43.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

47.

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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

49.

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

Mark Hodder

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren