Motivational Quotes

Life

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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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

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

Keller, Helen

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

William Shakespeare

Live poor so you can die rich.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Hume, David

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Oprah Winfrey

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Austen, Jane

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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 comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ciardi, John

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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