Motivational Quotes

Life

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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

Hume, David

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Michelangelo

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Mark Hodder

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

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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