Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Making a life comes before making a living.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Burns, George

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Santayana, George

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.