Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Prochnow, Herbert

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

McMillan, Terry

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid