Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Kennedy, John F.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Clark, Frank A.