Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Life

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Presser, Ross

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

Santaguida, Paul

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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

Socrates

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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

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

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Truman Capote

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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

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Douglas, Michael

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end