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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

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.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Feidelson, Charles

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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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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

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Giles, Henry

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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.