Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Coriolanus III

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Waitley, Denis

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Michelangelo

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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 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

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

John Lennon

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way