Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Seneca

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Piatt, Don

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

William Shakespeare

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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 sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Shields, Carol

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George