Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Life

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Austen, Jane

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Byron, Lord

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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

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Coallier, Steven

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.