Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Boese, Paul

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri