Motivational Quotes

Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

- Butler, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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