Motivational Quotes

Life

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Indian

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Aristotle

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.