Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Camus, Albert

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Robert Heinlein

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean