Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Hume, David

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Presser, Ross

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand