Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Erickson, Lou

Best Quotes about Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Camus, Albert

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

44.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.