Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Blake, William

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Prochnow, Herbert

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Camus, Albert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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