Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Giles, Henry

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Proverb, Persian

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Ovid

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Horace

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.