Motivational Quotes

Life

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

33.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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