Motivational Quotes

Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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.

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

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

Kempton, Murray

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Santayana, George

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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My art and profession is to live.