Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Aleichem, Sholom

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Simon, Neil

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Heath, David M.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Horace

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Leno, Jay

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord