Motivational Quotes

Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

- Michelangelo

Best Quotes about Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Herzen, Alexander

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord