Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Fran Lebowitz

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

James, William

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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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

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Antrim, Minna

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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