Motivational Quotes

Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

- Oppenheimer, Martin

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Dane, Frank

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Camus, Albert

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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 major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred