Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carson, Rachel

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Herold, Don

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Augustine, St.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

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

10.

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

Southey, Robert

11.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Austen, Jane

13.

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

Hewitt, George T.

14.

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

Facult, F. Paul

15.

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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

25.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

27.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

28.

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

Oprah Winfrey

29.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Ovid

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

Simon, Neil

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

34.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Fields, W. C.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

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

Nash, Ogden

40.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

43.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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 a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd