Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Byron, Lord

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

Kant, Immanuel

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.