Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Huxley, Aldous

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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 is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.