Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

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

Samuel Butler

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Butler, Philip

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Stoppard, Tom

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Ovid

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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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