Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Life

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

Woody Allen

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Brendan Gill

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Presser, Ross

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Dane, Frank

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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.