Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herzen, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

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

Herzen, Alexander

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Steve Jobs

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Epicurus

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Bacon, Francis