Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

10.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

11.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Linkletter, Art

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

37.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.