Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

- Radner, Gilda

Best Quotes about Life

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Facult, F. Paul

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Ciardi, John

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

46.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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.