Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Robert Heinlein

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bacon, Francis

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

John Lennon

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Wickett, Michael

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Norris, Kathleen

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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

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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 full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Douglas, Michael

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.