Motivational Quotes

Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

- Mccarthy, Mary

Best Quotes about Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Miller, Henry

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

11.

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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

18.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

19.

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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

25.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

26.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

27.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

30.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

31.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

32.

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

Carson, Johnny

33.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

34.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Cioran, E. M.

36.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

37.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

38.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Temple, Sir William

40.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

41.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

42.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

43.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

44.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

45.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

47.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

49.

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir