Motivational Quotes

Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

- Henry, O.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Menander of Athens

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Coriolanus III

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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.

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pliny The Elder

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams