Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

- Brown, William Adams

Best Quotes about Life

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

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

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Lehrer, Tom

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

James, William

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

Carson, Johnny

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.