Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

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

Temple, Sir William

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Field, Joanna

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Southey, Robert

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

32.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

35.

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

Horace

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Newman, Peter C.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur