Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Steve Jobs

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

McMillan, Terry

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Truman Capote

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.