Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

May, Rollo

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Dickens, Charles

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Proverb, Persian

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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