Motivational Quotes

Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

27.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

28.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

James, William

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

34.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle