Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rogers, Carl

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Temple, Sir William

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Franklin, Benjamin

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

John Lennon

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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