Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

- Welsh, John

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cousteau, Jacques

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Propp Jr., Fred

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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

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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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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Antrim, Minna

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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 is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)