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 city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nash, Ogden

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Robert Heinlein

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Heath, David M.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean