Motivational Quotes

Life

The city is recruited from the country.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Camus, Albert

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Proverb, Persian

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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 good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl