Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dante Alighieri

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Proverb, German

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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth