Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Best Quotes about Life

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

Austen, Jane

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

Orben, Robert

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Woody Allen

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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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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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

35.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey