Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Best Quotes about Life

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Giles, Henry

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Larkin, Philip

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Proverb, Indian

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Seneca

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias