Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Life

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Mountain, Marian

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

29.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Fran Lebowitz

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Pliny The Elder

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria