Motivational Quotes

Life

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Erhard, Werner

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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