Motivational Quotes

Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Camus, Albert

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William