Motivational Quotes

Life

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Herold, Don

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Coriolanus III

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George