Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Cook, Robert A.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Austen, Jane

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

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Aristotle

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Kempton, Murray

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis