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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Canetti, Elias

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Carson, Rachel

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Samuel Butler

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Camus, Albert

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Hume, David

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene