Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Carson, Rachel

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Fields, W. C.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

John Lennon

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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

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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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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Ben Stein

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.