Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Socrates

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Foreman, George

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welsh, John

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.