Motivational Quotes

Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Carson, Rachel

11.

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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

14.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

15.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

16.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

19.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

20.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

21.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

22.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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

24.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

26.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

27.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

32.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

38.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

39.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

40.

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

Temple, Sir William

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

43.

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

Truman Capote

44.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Camus, Albert

46.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

47.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Wickett, Michael