Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Clark, Frank A.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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 a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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