Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mark Hodder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Aristotle

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Coriolanus III

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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 at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John