Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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 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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, German

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Live poor so you can die rich.

42.

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

Gauguin, Paul

43.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian