Motivational Quotes

Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

- Prather, Hugh

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Southey, Robert

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

11.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

James, William

20.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

25.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

31.

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

32.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

34.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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