Motivational Quotes

Life

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Samuel Butler

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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 a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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 is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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

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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 essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.