Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Welsh, John

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Leno, Jay

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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.

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

Burns, George

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Presser, Ross

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mountain, Marian

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Landers, Ann

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Aristotle

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

44.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson