Motivational Quotes

Life

My life is a battle.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Life

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

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

10.

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

11.

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

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Woody Allen

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

33.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

36.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

May, Rollo

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Aristotle

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.