Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Steve Jobs

10.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

11.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Ben Stein

18.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

20.

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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Horace

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Live poor so you can die rich.

33.

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

Russell, Lady R.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Heath, David M.

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