Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

- Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Best Quotes about Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Markiewicz, William

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

10.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

11.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

12.

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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

16.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

18.

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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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 a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

40.

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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Camus, Albert

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

44.

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

Canetti, Elias

45.

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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

48.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich