Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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 essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.