Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

William Shakespeare

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

May, Rollo

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.