Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Live poor so you can die rich.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

11.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

13.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Platen

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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 to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

33.

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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

41.

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

Dane, Frank

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.