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

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

Antrim, Minna

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

10.

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

11.

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

Southey, Robert

12.

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

Nouwen, Henri

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

Welsh, John

14.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

16.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Mansfield, Katherine

18.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

19.

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

Caesar, Sid

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

21.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

24.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

26.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

27.

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

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

30.

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

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

33.

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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Dryden, John

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

39.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

44.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

45.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

46.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

47.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

48.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.