Motivational Quotes

Life

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

- Whittier, John Greenleaf

Best Quotes about Life

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

William Shakespeare

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

11.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Presser, Ross

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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.

41.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

McMillan, Terry