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

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

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Herold, Don

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

Ciardi, John

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Presser, Ross

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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.