Motivational Quotes

Life

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

- Carson, Johnny

Best Quotes about Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Camus, Albert

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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 must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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 is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Moses, Grandma

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.