Motivational Quotes

Life

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Connolly, Cyril

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

10.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

12.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

13.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

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

15.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

16.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

17.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

18.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

20.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

21.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

24.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

29.

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

30.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

31.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

32.

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

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

35.

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

46.

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Aristotle

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

50.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John