Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Douglas, Michael

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Aristotle

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell