Motivational Quotes

Life

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Life

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.