Motivational Quotes

Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Daniel Akst

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

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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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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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

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian