Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

- Huxtable, Ada Louise

Best Quotes about Life

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

Forster, Edward M.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Austen, Jane

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sheen, Fulton John

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Herold, Don

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Landers, Ann

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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