Motivational Quotes

Life

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

- Cabell, James Branch

Best Quotes about Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Brodsky, Joseph

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Landers, Ann

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Simon, Neil

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.