Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Live poor so you can die rich.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Russell, Lady R.

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

Landers, Ann

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

15.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

20.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Giles, Henry

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Welsh, John

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Wickett, Michael

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William