Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Life

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

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

John Lennon

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

12.

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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

39.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

44.

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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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