Motivational Quotes

Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Life

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Seneca

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Presser, Ross

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Fran Lebowitz

16.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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 used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

34.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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

47.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory