Motivational Quotes

Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

- Herrick, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Duncan, Isadora

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Persian

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.