Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

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

William Shakespeare

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher