Motivational Quotes

Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kempton, Murray

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Stoppard, Tom

10.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

11.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

12.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

13.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

15.

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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Lennon, John

18.

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

Markham, Edwin

19.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

21.

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

Dawson, Roger

22.

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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

25.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

26.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

27.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

28.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

30.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

31.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

39.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

40.

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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

42.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

45.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

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

47.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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