Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Shields, Carol

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

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.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

10.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

James, William

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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.