Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

May, Rollo

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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.

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

William Goldman

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.