Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

- Welsh, John

Best Quotes about Life

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Coriolanus III

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

22.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

28.

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

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

32.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Ciardi, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Hume, David

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.