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

Billings, Josh

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Blackie, Professor

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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 a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Jordan, David Starr

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Steve Jobs

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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 deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb