Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Burns, George

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

10.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

11.

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

Ciardi, John

12.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

27.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

28.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

29.

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

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Coallier, Steven

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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 are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Shields, Carol

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

49.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live poor so you can die rich.