Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Douglas, Michael

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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 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

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

William Shakespeare

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

22.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

30.

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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Mead, Margaret

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert