Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Linkletter, Art

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Walpole, Horace

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Herold, Don

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Camus, Albert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Antrim, Minna

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie