Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Stoppard, Tom

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.