Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Burns, George

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

Steve Jobs

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

Erhard, Werner

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

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.