Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

May, Rollo

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Carson, Johnny

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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.

43.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De