Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Seneca

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

John Lennon

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Erhard, Werner

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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 as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Persian

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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 wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Russell, Bertrand