Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Shakespeare, William

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hayes, Helen

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Powell, Robert

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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