Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Camus, Albert

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John 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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

John Lennon

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hanks, Tom

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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 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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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