Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

- Condoleeza Rice

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Harington, Donald

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

William Goldman

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.