Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

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

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Mark Hodder

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herold, Don

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

Carson, Johnny

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Heath, David M.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Wright, Steven

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Field, Joanna

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Linkletter, Art

42.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.