Motivational Quotes

Life

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hume, David

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Proverb, German

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Temple, Sir William

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo