Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Making a life comes before making a living.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Robert Heinlein

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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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 something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.