Motivational Quotes

Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bachelard, Gaston

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Herold, Don

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno