Motivational Quotes

Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

- Delacroix, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Nash, Ogden

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Fran Lebowitz

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

10.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

11.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

14.

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

Canetti, Elias

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Cook, Robert A.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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.

41.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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

43.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.