Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Life

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Steve Jobs

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Austen, Jane

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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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

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)