Motivational Quotes

Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

- Gannett, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Herzen, Alexander

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.