Motivational Quotes

Life

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

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

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales