Motivational Quotes

Life

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

- Cook, Robert A.

Best Quotes about Life

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Aleichem, Sholom

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

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

Socrates

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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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 in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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 like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Burns, George

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Oprah Winfrey

37.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

46.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill