Motivational Quotes

Life

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Gable, Clark

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Santaguida, Paul

33.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Shields, Carol

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar