Motivational Quotes

Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

John Lennon

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

Kant, Immanuel

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

21.

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]

Bible

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

35.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

36.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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.

39.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Foreman, George

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard