Motivational Quotes

Life

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

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.

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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Socrates

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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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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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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 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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Piatt, Don

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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

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred