Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

William Goldman

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Norman Thomas

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Shakespeare

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De