Motivational Quotes

Life

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herold, Don

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

Orben, Robert

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

10.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

11.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

13.

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

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

18.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

19.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

25.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Aristotle

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. 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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.