Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's but a day at most.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Life

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Camus, Albert

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

McMillan, Terry

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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 an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Ben Stein

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia