Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Leno, Jay

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Lennon, John

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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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 always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

William Goldman

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

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Berenson, Bernard

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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 is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter