Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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

Camus, Albert

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Dawson, Roger

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

10.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

14.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

18.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

21.

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

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

23.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

25.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

29.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

30.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

31.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

32.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

35.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

36.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Horace

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia