Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Norman Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

27.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Temple, Sir William

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven