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

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

Cook, Robert A.

Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Heath, David M.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.