Motivational Quotes

Life

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

- Hoggart, Simon

Best Quotes about Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Santayana, George

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Erickson, Lou

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Brendan Gill

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Lennon, John

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Moses, Grandma

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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