Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Billings, Josh

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.