Motivational Quotes

Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

- Augustus, Caesar

Best Quotes about Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Fields, W. C.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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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

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.