Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dane, Frank

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

James, William

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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 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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.