Motivational Quotes

Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

Best Quotes about Life

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

Austen, Jane

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

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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 made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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 is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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 attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Fran Lebowitz

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.