Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

11.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Moses, Grandma

32.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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