Motivational Quotes

Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

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

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 zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Aristotle

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baluch, Joy

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Kornfield, Jack

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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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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar