Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

William Goldman

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Facult, F. Paul

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Field, Joanna

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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