Motivational Quotes

Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Life

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Leno, Jay

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Gurney, Robert

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

William Shakespeare

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Foreman, George

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise