Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Baluch, Joy

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten