Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Dryden, John

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

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Ovid

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

Dawson, Roger

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

Camus, Albert

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Frankl, Viktor E.