Motivational Quotes

Life

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

- Temple, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

12.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

13.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

15.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

16.

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

17.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

18.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

19.

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

Clark, Frank A.

20.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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

22.

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

23.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

25.

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

26.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Pliny The Elder

28.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

29.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

32.

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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

34.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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

39.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

40.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

43.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

44.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

45.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

46.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

47.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

48.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Powell, Robert