Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Menander of Athens

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Propp Jr., Fred

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Robert Heinlein

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Douglas, Michael

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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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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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.