Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Camus, Albert

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Menander of Athens

11.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

12.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

19.

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

Herold, Don

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

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

Barrymore, John

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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