Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

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

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Orben, Robert

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Hodder

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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 really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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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 bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.