Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

James, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Steve Jobs

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Barrymore, John