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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Connolly, Cyril

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Burns, George

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

48.

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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live poor so you can die rich.