Motivational Quotes

Life

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robert Heinlein

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Menander of Athens

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Coallier, Steven

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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 is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Douglas, Michael

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar