Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

Harington, Donald

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

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

Herold, Don

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

43.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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