Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Pavese, Cesare

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

Clark, Frank A.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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

26.

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

Lennon, John

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

31.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Wright, Steven

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John