Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

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

Erickson, Lou

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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 is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Giles, Henry

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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 is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov