Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Heath, David M.

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

Dawson, Roger

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Clark, Frank A.

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

13.

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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

15.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

18.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

21.

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

Horace

22.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

23.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

24.

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

25.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

26.

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

Angelou, Maya

27.

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

Rogers, Will

28.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

29.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

30.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

31.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

32.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

33.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

37.

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

Michelangelo

38.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

39.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

40.

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

Osler, Sir William

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Maclaren, Alexander

43.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

45.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

46.

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

Wright, Steven

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.