Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

19.

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

20.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

21.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

23.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

30.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

31.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Seneca

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

34.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Lennon, John

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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 is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert