Motivational Quotes

Life

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Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Temple, Sir William

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Moses, Grandma

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.