Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Samuel Butler

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Foreman, George

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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)

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

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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 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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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