Motivational Quotes

Life

Live, let live, and help live

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Daniel Akst

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Herold, Don

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Heath, David M.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

25.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Landers, Ann

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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