Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ben Stein

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Einstein, Albert

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

James, William

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Harington, Donald

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William