Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Steve Jobs

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

16.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

17.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

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

Pliny The Elder

19.

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

20.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

21.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

22.

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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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 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

25.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

26.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

27.

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

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

29.

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

Proverb, German

30.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

31.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

32.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

33.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

35.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

37.

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

38.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

42.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

46.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

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

49.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

50.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques