Motivational Quotes

Life

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Butler, Samuel

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Landers, Ann

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

Mead, Margaret

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Horace

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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 that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus