Motivational Quotes

Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

- Jordan, David Starr

Best Quotes about Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Lennon, John

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Menander of Athens

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Horace

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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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

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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

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Seneca

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell