Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Facult, F. Paul

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Wright, Steven

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.