Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

11.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

12.

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

14.

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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

18.

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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

May, Rollo

21.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

William Goldman

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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 filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert