Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Austen, Jane

10.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

11.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

12.

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

Cabell, James Branch

13.

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

15.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

16.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

17.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

18.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

19.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

20.

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

Keller, Helen

21.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

22.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

24.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

25.

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

26.

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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

29.

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

30.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

31.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

Presser, Ross

35.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

37.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

41.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Shakespeare, William

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

44.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

48.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

49.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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