Motivational Quotes

Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

- McMillan, Terry

Best Quotes about Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Camus, Albert

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

10.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

11.

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

Orben, Robert

12.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

13.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

19.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

20.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

21.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

22.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

23.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

24.

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

Ciardi, John

25.

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

Coriolanus III

26.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

27.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

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

31.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

33.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

34.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

35.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

36.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

39.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

40.

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)

41.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

42.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

43.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

44.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

45.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

46.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

48.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno