Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Russell, Bertrand

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Shakespeare, William

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Presser, Ross

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Ciardi, John

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Byron, Lord

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 -- 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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel