Motivational Quotes

Life

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Woody Allen

12.

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

Menander of Athens

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

14.

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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

18.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

27.

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

28.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

29.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

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

Fran Lebowitz

31.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

34.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

35.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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

James, William

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

43.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

47.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard