Motivational Quotes

Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Camus, Albert

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

Dane, Frank