Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

James, William

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Caesar, Sid

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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 is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

19.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

22.

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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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 a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, 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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Wickett, Michael

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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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.