Motivational Quotes

Life

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Life

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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 an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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