Motivational Quotes

Life

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

- Baughan, Bill

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb, German

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Wright, Steven

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

13.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

14.

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

Temple, Sir 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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

William Shakespeare

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

23.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

25.

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

Lennon, John

26.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

27.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

28.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

30.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

43.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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