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

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

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Berenson, Bernard

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Markham, Edwin

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

32.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Shields, Carol

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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 is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.