Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

- Welsh, John

Best Quotes about Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Lennon, John

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

John Lennon

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Wickett, Michael

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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 a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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