Motivational Quotes

Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Boese, Paul

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Dane, Frank

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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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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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Camus, Albert

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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