Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Kennedy, John F.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Duncan, Isadora

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

11.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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 a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

28.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles