Motivational Quotes

Life

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, 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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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

William Shakespeare

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Mandino, Og

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Baluch, Joy

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous