Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Menander of Athens

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Simon, Neil

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Ben Stein

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.