Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Michelangelo

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

Dickens, Charles

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Santayana, George

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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 virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Camus, Albert

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret