Motivational Quotes

Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Foreman, George

12.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

28.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

29.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Dryden, John

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry