Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Hayes, Helen

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

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

Dawson, Roger

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen