Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Berenson, Bernard

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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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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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Steve Jobs

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

Rogers, Will

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Larkin, Philip

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.