Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

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

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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

12.

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

Pope John XXIII

13.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

James, William

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Markham, Edwin

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

33.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

36.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert