Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Angelou, Maya

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Baluch, Joy

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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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 a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Lin-Chi

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey