Motivational Quotes

Life

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

- Butler, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

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

Field, Joanna

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Proverb, German

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Lennon, John

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt