Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

- Facult, F. Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Larkin, Philip

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Woody Allen

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

James, William

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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'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

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven