Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Coallier, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Herold, Don

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Camus, Albert

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Temple, Sir William

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Landers, Ann

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray