Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Steve Jobs

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Welsh, John

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Forster, Edward M.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Piatt, Don

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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