Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horace

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

Menander of Athens

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cabell, James Branch

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

10.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

11.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

12.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

13.

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

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

17.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

18.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

20.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

24.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

25.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

28.

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

Canetti, Elias

29.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

30.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

31.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

32.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

33.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

34.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

35.

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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

39.

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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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 always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

45.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

46.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

47.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life flows on within you and without you.