Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Ovid

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

William Shakespeare

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar