Motivational Quotes

Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

- Baluch, Joy

Best Quotes about Life

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

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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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

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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 man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Samuel Butler

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?