Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Ciardi, John

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

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Russell, Bertrand

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst