Motivational Quotes

Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

- Gannett, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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

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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

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Santayana, George

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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