Motivational Quotes

Life

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Linkletter, Art

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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)

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

42.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

44.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a long lesson in humility.