Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

11.

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

Menander of Athens

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

13.

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

Presser, Ross

14.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Bible

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.