Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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)

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

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Young, J. Z.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Temple, Sir William

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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 search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moses, Grandma

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

34.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Samuel Butler

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.