Motivational Quotes

Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

14.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

15.

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

Camus, Albert

16.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

17.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

21.

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

Aristotle

22.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

23.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

24.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

25.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

26.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

27.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

28.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

29.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

30.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

31.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

32.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

41.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

43.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

44.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres