Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nouwen, Henri

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Larkin, Philip

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Welsh, John

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Broun, Heywood

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.