Motivational Quotes

Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

- Field, Joanna

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kant, Immanuel

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Platen

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David