Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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 a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Cabell, James Branch

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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Landers, Ann

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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 what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De