Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

Santaguida, Paul

12.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Pepper, Claude D.

17.

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

Field, Joanna

18.

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

Pope John XXIII

19.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Herzen, Alexander

21.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

Proverb, German

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

25.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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.

27.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Pliny The Elder

29.

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

30.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

33.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

34.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

36.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

40.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

41.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Menander of Athens

45.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

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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