Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Antrim, Minna

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shields, Carol

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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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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 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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Woody Allen

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Wickett, Michael

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Keller, Helen

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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.