Motivational Quotes

Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

- Platen

Best Quotes about Life

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Robert Heinlein

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Feidelson, Charles

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

11.

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

Orben, Robert

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

18.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

19.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

28.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Moses, Grandma

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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 is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

50.

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

Proverb, Scottish