Motivational Quotes

Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

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

Erickson, Lou

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Temple, Sir William

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Young, J. Z.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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 an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Gurney, Robert

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Markham, Edwin

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Camus, Albert

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Foreman, George

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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