Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nash, Ogden

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart