Motivational Quotes

Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

- Ibuka, Massaru

Best Quotes about Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Ben Stein

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph