Motivational Quotes

Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

- Jonathan Haidt

Best Quotes about Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

John Lennon

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.