Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Newman, Peter C.

Best Quotes about Life

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Shakespeare, William

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene