Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Moses, Grandma

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Fran Lebowitz

13.

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

Temple, Sir William

14.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

15.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

20.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

21.

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

Pope John XXIII

22.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

28.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

32.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

35.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

36.

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 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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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

41.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Foreman, George

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

44.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield