Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Foreman, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mansfield, Katherine

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Lennon, John

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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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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Larkin, Philip

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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 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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph