Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

- Propp Jr., Fred

Best Quotes about Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Pliny The Elder

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Rogers, Carl

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene