Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

19.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Blake, William

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Heath, David M.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William