Motivational Quotes

Life

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

- Heath, David M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bacon, Francis

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Santayana, George

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

19.

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Markham, Edwin

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

28.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

36.

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

Delacroix, Eugene

37.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

43.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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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