Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Byron, Lord

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Markham, Edwin

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Truman Capote

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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 at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

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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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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Ciardi, John

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Camus, Albert

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

46.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis