Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

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

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Kennedy, John F.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd