Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

John Lennon

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bible

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

Lennon, John

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

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

William Goldman

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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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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Herold, Don

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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