Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Socrates

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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.

10.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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.

13.

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

14.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

16.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

17.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

19.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

20.

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

Austen, Jane

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

25.

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

Herzen, Alexander

26.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

27.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

32.

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

Ovid

33.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

34.

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

Horace

35.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

36.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

45.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

48.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst