Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Santaguida, Paul

10.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

11.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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

18.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

22.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

24.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

25.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Gable, Clark

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

32.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

34.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

35.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

36.

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

Erhard, Werner

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

38.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

44.

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

45.

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

Horace

46.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis