Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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 four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III