Motivational Quotes

Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lin-Chi

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

28.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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

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

Moses, Grandma

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor