Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

- Davy, Sir Humphrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Lennon, John

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Ben Stein

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren