Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

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.

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Camus, Albert

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Horace

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Herold, Don

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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

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey