Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

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

Isaac Asimov

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

10.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

11.

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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

16.

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

Leno, Jay

17.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

18.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Nash, Ogden

28.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

30.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

Wright, Steven

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

34.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

35.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

Fields, W. C.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

45.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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 a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph