Motivational Quotes

Life

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

May, Rollo

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.