Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Fran Lebowitz

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Steve Jobs

14.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

19.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

20.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

21.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

26.

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

27.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

28.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Herold, Don

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

34.

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

Nash, Ogden

35.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

36.

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

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

39.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

49.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall