Motivational Quotes

Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

- Pope John XXIII

Best Quotes about Life

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

Steve Jobs

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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

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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)

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Boese, Paul

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert