Motivational Quotes

Life

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Fields, W. C.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.