Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Thibodeau, Robert

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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 is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Socrates

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Foreman, George

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Proverb, Indian

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.