Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.