Motivational Quotes

Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Facult, F. Paul

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Linkletter, Art

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Santayana, George

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Coriolanus III

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Steve Jobs

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von