Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Dickens, Charles

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Platen

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

15.

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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

29.

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.

30.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

31.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

33.

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

Coriolanus III

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

37.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

39.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Gurney, Robert

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

47.

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

Dane, Frank

48.

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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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

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton