Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Landers, Ann

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

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

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Alacia Bessette

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.