Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

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

Walpole, Horace

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

Allen, Fred A.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Dickens, Charles

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

17.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

19.

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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

28.

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

29.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

32.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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

Norman Thomas

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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 a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The less routine the more life.