Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

- Christopher Morley

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Herold, Don

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

10.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

16.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

17.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

18.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

19.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

20.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

22.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

23.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

24.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

29.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

30.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

31.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

32.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

33.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

34.

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

Kennedy, John F.

35.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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

38.

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

Landers, Ann

39.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

40.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.