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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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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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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Wilde, Oscar

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Newman, Peter C.

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen