Motivational Quotes

Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

- Polgar, Alfred

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robert Heinlein

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ovid

10.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

John Lennon

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

40.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

43.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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.