Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Best Quotes about Life

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

12.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

15.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

19.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

44.

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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb