Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who live are those who fight.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Proverb, Indian

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Proverb, Persian

14.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

23.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Austen, Jane

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

44.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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