Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

- Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

May, Rollo

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Aristotle

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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 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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Seneca

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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

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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