Motivational Quotes

Life

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Camus, Albert

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

Delacroix, Eugene

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

William Goldman

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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