Motivational Quotes

Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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.

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Gellert

11.

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

12.

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

13.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

15.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

19.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

20.

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

May, Rollo

21.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, German

24.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

27.

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

28.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

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

Lehrer, Tom

31.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

32.

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

Crisp, Quentin

33.

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

34.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

35.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

36.

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

37.

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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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