Motivational Quotes

Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Santayana, George

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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 first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

17.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

18.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

35.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Temple, Sir William

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Wright, Steven

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John