Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Isaac Asimov

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Epicurus

28.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Douglas, Michael

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart