Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William