Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Life

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Thibodeau, Robert

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert