Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

- Brooke, Rupert

Best Quotes about Life

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Landers, Ann

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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 four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Heath, David M.

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora