Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

- Mille, Agnes De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bacon, Francis

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Samuel Butler

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Socrates

46.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard