Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

- Munger, Thornton T.

Best Quotes about Life

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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 is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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All great art is born of the metropolis.