Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

William Shakespeare

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

31.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Blake, William

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George