Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Foreman, George

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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 -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven