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 the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

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

Wise, Alfonso The

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Broun, Heywood

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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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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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Barrymore, John

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Miller, Henry

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hubbard, Elbert