Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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 is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia