Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Kornfield, Jack

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Wright, Steven

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

10.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

11.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

12.

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

13.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

14.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

15.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.

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

17.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

24.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

25.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

28.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

29.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Landers, Ann

32.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

36.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

39.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

46.

Making a life comes before making a living.

47.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

49.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William