Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Daniel Akst

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Dawson, Roger

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

33.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.