Motivational Quotes

Life

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

- Coriolanus III

Best Quotes about Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Barrymore, John

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

Simon, Neil

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

11.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

12.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Baluch, Joy

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Pliny The Elder

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Dante Alighieri

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Austen, Jane

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

41.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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 crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.