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

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hewitt, George T.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Mountain, Marian

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand