Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von