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

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Daniel Akst

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Samuel Butler

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

Austen, Jane

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

32.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Ovid

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

Baluch, Joy

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

39.

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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Steve Jobs

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

Lennon, John

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Augustine, St.