Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

11.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

15.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

17.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

26.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Horace

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII