Motivational Quotes

Life

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

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

Moses, Grandma

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rogers, Will

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hume, David

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butler, Samuel

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries