Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Pope John XXIII

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Field, Joanna

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Propp Jr., Fred

16.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

18.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

23.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

James, William

27.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Pepper, Claude D.

33.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

40.

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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Thibodeau, Robert

43.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

48.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

49.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

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