Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Proverb, German

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb, Indian

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

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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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Blake, William

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Camus, Albert

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

Carson, Johnny

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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 is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

45.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis