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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Wolfe, Thomas

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Antrim, Minna

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Robert Heinlein

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.