Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Gauguin, Paul

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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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

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Coriolanus III

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gable, Clark

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Allen, Fred A.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare