Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Mead, Margaret

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Michelangelo

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Tomlin, Lily

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Menander of Athens

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De