Motivational Quotes

Life

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

- Coallier, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

William Shakespeare

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

John Lennon

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.