Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Fieldes, Christopher

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

10.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

12.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

Welsh, John

17.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

18.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

19.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

23.

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

24.

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

Leno, Jay

25.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

31.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

32.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

35.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

36.

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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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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