Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Powell, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Jordan, David Starr

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Larkin, Philip

11.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Angelou, Maya

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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 at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

34.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

37.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Camus, Albert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Salisbury, Harrison