Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Propp Jr., Fred

Best Quotes about Life

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Welsh, John

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Steve Jobs

14.

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

Piatt, Don

15.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

16.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

17.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

22.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

25.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

26.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

27.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

28.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

29.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

32.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

33.

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

Carson, Rachel

34.

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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Angelou, Maya

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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 is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

41.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

42.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

43.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

44.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

45.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert