Motivational Quotes

Life

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

James, William

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Pliny The Elder

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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 is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Herold, Don

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Horace

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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