Motivational Quotes

Life

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

- Cousteau, Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Carson, Rachel

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

William Goldman

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ward, William A.

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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Rogers, Will

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Moses, Grandma