Motivational Quotes

Life

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Field, Joanna

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Samuel Butler

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

Temple, Sir William

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief