Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Camus, Albert

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Dane, Frank

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

James, William

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Kennedy, John F.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Ovid

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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

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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 a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.