Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herold, Don

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

John Lennon

11.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

12.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

13.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

15.

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

Kempton, Murray

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

31.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Hayes, Helen

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

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Horace

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.