Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mead, Margaret

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Mark Hodder

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

10.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

11.

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

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

14.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

18.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

19.

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

Cook, Robert A.

20.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

21.

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

22.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

26.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

27.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

28.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

29.

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

Platen

30.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

33.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

39.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

41.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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