Motivational Quotes

Life

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dryden, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

May, Rollo

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Hume, David

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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 else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert