Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

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

Ben Stein

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Larkin, Philip

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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 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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Allen, Fred A.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Maclaren, Alexander

31.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

32.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Austen, Jane

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.