Motivational Quotes

Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Clark, Frank A.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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 like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

William Shakespeare

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth