Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robert Heinlein

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Kennedy, John F.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

10.

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

11.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

20.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

28.

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

Proverb, Indian

29.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

31.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

32.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

33.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

34.

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

Simon, Neil

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.