Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Austen, Jane

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Ovid

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coallier, Steven

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries