Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

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

Douglas, Michael

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Socrates

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

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

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

Coallier, Steven

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

39.

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George