Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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.

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

Markiewicz, William

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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)

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Santayana, George

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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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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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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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 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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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