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

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

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Proverb, Indian

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live poor so you can die rich.

35.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Fields, W. C.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Fran Lebowitz

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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