Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mead, Margaret

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Byron, Lord

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Steve Jobs

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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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

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

Heath, David M.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Facult, F. Paul

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

James, William

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus