Motivational Quotes

Life

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

- Hewitt, George T.

Best Quotes about Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Bible

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Clark, Frank A.

16.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

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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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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

22.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

38.

Live poor so you can die rich.

39.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

43.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

44.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.