Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Burns, George

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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

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

Horace

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Santayana, George

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom