Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

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

Blake, William

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

Santayana, George

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Moses, Grandma

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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 a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Pliny The Elder

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo