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

Ben Stein

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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 It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

11.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

18.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

19.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Santayana, George

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

28.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

31.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Piatt, Don

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fran Lebowitz

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Isaac Asimov