Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Huxley, Aldous

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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

19.

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

Dane, Frank

20.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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

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

Proverb, Persian

31.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

32.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

43.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Camus, Albert

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael