Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Presser, Ross

Best Quotes about Life

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

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

11.

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

17.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Horace

25.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

27.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

James, William

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

Gellert

34.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell