Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Horace

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Blake, William

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Mark Hodder

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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