Motivational Quotes

Life

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Butler, Samuel

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Orben, Robert

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

John Lennon

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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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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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Billings, Josh