Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Ovid

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lennon, John

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

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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 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