Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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.

25.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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 a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Calhoun, John C.