Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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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

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

Woody Allen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Harington, Donald

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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 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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando