Motivational Quotes

Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

- Debevoise, P. L.

Best Quotes about Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Miller, Henry

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Hanks, Tom

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

William Shakespeare

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.