Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dawson, Roger

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

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

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Aristotle

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Welsh, John

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques