Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

34.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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 chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michelangelo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria