Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Isaac Asimov

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

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Norris, Kathleen

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare