Motivational Quotes

Life

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

- Crisp, Quentin

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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

Burns, George

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Lennon, John

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.