Motivational Quotes

Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

- Lieberman, Gerald F.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Russell, Lady R.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

18.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lennon, John

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ciardi, John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Ward, William A.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

33.

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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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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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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Indian

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.