Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

- Booth, Evangeline Cory

Best Quotes about Life

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

Antrim, Minna

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman Capote

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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 the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret