Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Maclaren, Alexander

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Presser, Ross

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald