Motivational Quotes

Life

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Orben, Robert

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Seneca

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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 never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Ovid

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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