Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

10.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

11.

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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

17.

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

Burns, George

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

24.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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 a continual process of remaking ourselves.

34.

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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 is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

49.

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

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.