Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fieldes, Christopher

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Seneca

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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 mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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 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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

33.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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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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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.