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

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

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

Facult, F. Paul

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 to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

21.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

28.

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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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

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

32.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

33.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Giles, Henry

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

48.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.