Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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 mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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 found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.