Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Steve Jobs

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

Larkin, Philip

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.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Santayana, George

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Menander of Athens

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Hume, David

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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