Motivational Quotes

Life

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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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

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

John Lennon

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Camus, Albert

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William