Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Debevoise, P. L.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Landers, Ann

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Gable, Clark

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Wright, Steven

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

Lennon, John

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life too near paralyses art.