Motivational Quotes

Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

- Daniel Akst

Best Quotes about Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pliny The Elder

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

10.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

11.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

12.

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

Shields, Carol

13.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Feidelson, Charles

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

18.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

21.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

24.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Norris, Kathleen

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Cousteau, Jacques