Motivational Quotes

Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Seneca

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

10.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

11.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

12.

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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

15.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

18.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

19.

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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

22.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

23.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

24.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

26.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

29.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

30.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

32.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

33.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

35.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

36.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

46.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

47.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De