Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Best Quotes about Life

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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