Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Gellert

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.