Motivational Quotes

Life

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Foreman, George

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Simon, Neil

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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 is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.