Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Baruch, Bernard M.

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Rogers, Will

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

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

Young, J. Z.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aristotle

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.