Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Field, Joanna

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

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

10.

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

11.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

15.

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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

19.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Harington, Donald

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

29.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

30.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

31.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Aristotle

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

41.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.