Motivational Quotes

Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Aristotle

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

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

Heath, David M.

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

Wright, Steven

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir 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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Moses, Grandma

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Butler

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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 cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen