Motivational Quotes

Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cook, Robert A.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Boese, Paul

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Linkletter, Art

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Gellert

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Camus, Albert

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Camus, Albert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.