Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Welsh, John

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

Clark, Frank A.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

10.

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

Miller, Henry

12.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

13.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

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

17.

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

Augustine, St.

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.

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 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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

James, William

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Leno, Jay

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

48.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

49.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles