Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

- Morley, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Horace

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

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

Woody Allen

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

16.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

17.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

18.

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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

31.

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

Leno, Jay

32.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

41.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

42.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Calhoun, John C.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Newman, Peter C.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.