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

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Samuel Butler

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

12.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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

Santayana, George

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is a state of mind.