Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Burns, George

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

Douglas, Michael

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Austen, Jane

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon