Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wolfe, Thomas

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Austen, Jane

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Byron, Lord

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Herzen, Alexander

39.

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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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin