Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

10.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

11.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

12.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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

18.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

23.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

24.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

26.

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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

28.

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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

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

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas 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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

39.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

40.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

41.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!