Motivational Quotes

Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

- Boom, Corrie Ten

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Burns, George

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

29.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Indian

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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)

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas