Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Simon, Neil

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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

18.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

19.

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

Gellert

20.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

22.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

27.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

29.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

33.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

35.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

36.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

37.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Pliny The Elder

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Ben Stein

44.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley