Motivational Quotes

Life

Making a life comes before making a living.

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Best Quotes about Life

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Wolfe, Thomas

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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 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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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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]

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