Motivational Quotes

Life

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

- Poe, Edgar Allan

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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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.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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 state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

26.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

27.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

35.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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 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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

William Shakespeare

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.