Motivational Quotes

Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Austen, Jane

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

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

Robert Heinlein

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Gellert

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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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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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Erhard, Werner