Motivational Quotes

Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Life

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

Austen, Jane

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Making a life comes before making a living.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hume, David

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

11.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

12.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Live poor so you can die rich.

15.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

16.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

17.

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

19.

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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

21.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

22.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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 is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

30.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Temple, Sir William

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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

33.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

34.

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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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

37.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

39.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

40.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

42.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

43.

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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

46.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

47.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

48.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

49.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom