Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Camus, Albert

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Brendan Gill

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Aristotle

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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

18.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Menander of Athens

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan