Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

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

William Shakespeare

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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

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

Markiewicz, William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.