Motivational Quotes

Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Landers, Ann

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

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)

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dane, Frank

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

William Goldman

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

24.

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 at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

26.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

31.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

42.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

47.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.