Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Truman Capote

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 the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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.