Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Alacia Bessette

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Michelangelo

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry