Motivational Quotes

Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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 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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Landers, Ann

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

Ben Stein

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

McMillan, Terry

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom