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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Norman Thomas

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

Temple, Sir William

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

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Making a life comes before making a living.

24.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher