Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Sizoo, Joseph R.

Best Quotes about Life

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Alacia Bessette

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Dane, Frank

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.