Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Samuel Butler

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Leno, Jay

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

Hume, David

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Aldous

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Bacon, Francis

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.