Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

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

Fields, W. C.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

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

Foreman, George

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

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Steve Jobs

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Samuel Butler

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Bacon, Francis

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Canetti, Elias