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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Austen, Jane

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Herold, Don

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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

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Piatt, Don

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul