Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aristotle

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert