Motivational Quotes

Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

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

Powell, Robert

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Keller, Helen

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Shields, Carol

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Larkin, Philip

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen