Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Douglas, Michael

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Landers, Ann

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

William Shakespeare

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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