Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

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

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Byron, Lord

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

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.