Motivational Quotes

Life

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

- Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Calhoun, John C.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

10.

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

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

19.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

20.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Piatt, Don

26.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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 is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.