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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

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

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

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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Gauguin, Paul

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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 a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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

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

Keller, Helen

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Epicurus

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda