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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Burns, George

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

William Goldman

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

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

10.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Platen

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Aristotle

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Camus, Albert

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Wright, Steven

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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.

34.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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 an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Clark, Frank A.