Motivational Quotes

Life

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Austen, Jane

10.

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

11.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

12.

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

13.

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

Pliny The Elder

14.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

15.

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

16.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

18.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

19.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

20.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

21.

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

22.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

23.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

25.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

26.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

28.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

29.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

30.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

31.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

32.

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

Blackie, Professor

33.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

35.

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

36.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

37.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

38.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

39.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

40.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

41.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

42.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

43.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

44.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

45.

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

46.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

47.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

48.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

49.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

50.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.