Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Blackie, Professor

Best Quotes about Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo