Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

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

Propp Jr., Fred

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Russell, Lady R.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Socrates

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert