Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Erickson, Lou

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Isherwood, Christopher

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Coallier, Steven

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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Shakespeare, William

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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