Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

- Dick Werthimer

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

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

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

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

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Wickett, Michael

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

John Lennon

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

Mountain, Marian

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan