Motivational Quotes

Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

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

Debevoise, P. L.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Shields, Carol

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.