Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Woody Allen

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

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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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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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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dickens, Charles

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris