Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

11.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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

Dante Alighieri

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Herzen, Alexander

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Antrim, Minna

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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.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine