Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

13.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

14.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

17.

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

Coallier, Steven

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

21.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

36.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

40.

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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

44.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

45.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

46.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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