Motivational Quotes

Life

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

- Mountain, Marian

Best Quotes about Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dickens, Charles

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Camus, Albert

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Byron, Lord

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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 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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt