Motivational Quotes

Life

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

- Coallier, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Ovid

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Southey, Robert

44.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack