Motivational Quotes

Life

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

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

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

11.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Making a life comes before making a living.

13.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

14.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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 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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Russell, Lady R.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Mark Hodder

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

Ovid

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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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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.