Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Proverb, German

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

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

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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 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

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Wickett, Michael

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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.