Motivational Quotes

Life

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Coriolanus III

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan