Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Leno, Jay

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Heath, David M.

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

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.