Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Piatt, Don

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

11.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

12.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

25.

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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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

34.

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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

45.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf