Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

William Shakespeare

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Field, Joanna

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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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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

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

28.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.