Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Bible

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Erickson, Lou

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

11.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

18.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

21.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

23.

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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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

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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 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

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

Blake, William

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

42.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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 is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno