Motivational Quotes

Life

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Gellert

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Ovid

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John