Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Temple, Sir William

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Proverb, Indian

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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

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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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Dane, Frank

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Pliny The Elder

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Austen, Jane

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lennon, John

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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