Motivational Quotes

Life

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

William Shakespeare

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Truman Capote

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Mountain, Marian

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

42.

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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Pliny The Elder

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo