Motivational Quotes

Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Santayana, George

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

Lehrer, Tom

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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