Motivational Quotes

Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

- Platen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Herzen, Alexander

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

10.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

11.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Propp Jr., Fred

16.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

18.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

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

Cook, Robert A.

21.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

27.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

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

Austen, Jane

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

32.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

33.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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 measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Giles, Henry

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.