Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Norris, Kathleen

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

William Shakespeare

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Antrim, Minna

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Rogers, Will

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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

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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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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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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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 no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Walpole, Horace

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North