Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Newman, Peter C.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Tomlin, Lily

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Ben Stein

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman