Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Santayana, George

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Proverb, Indian

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.