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

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Connolly, Cyril

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Steve Jobs

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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