Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gable, Clark

Best Quotes about Life

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Burns, George

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

Giles, Henry

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

12.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

17.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

19.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Ciardi, John

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Rogers, Carl

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

William Goldman

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

34.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert