Motivational Quotes

Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Leno, Jay

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Simon, Neil

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Crisp, Quentin

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean