Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Calhoun, John C.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Butler, Philip

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lennon, John

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Simon, Neil

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.