Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dead-end street.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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

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

Larkin, Philip

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Kennedy, John F.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Austen, Jane

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Cook, Robert A.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Kant, Immanuel

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Powell, Robert

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

Oprah Winfrey

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Brodsky, Joseph