Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Blake, William

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

12.

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

Hayes, Helen

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

17.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

18.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

19.

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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

21.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

24.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

27.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

28.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

29.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

30.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

32.

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

33.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

34.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

35.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

37.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

38.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

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

Burns, George

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

46.

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

Caesar, Sid

47.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

48.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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