Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

- Propp Jr., Fred

Best Quotes about Life

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

11.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Steve Jobs

31.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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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

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

47.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Austen, Jane