Motivational Quotes

Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Aristotle

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Coriolanus III

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Dane, Frank

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

Pasternak, Boris

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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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 city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo