Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

- Grammer, Kelsey

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Making a life comes before making a living.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wright, Steven

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Ovid

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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

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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

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

Rogers, Carl

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Jordan, David Starr

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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

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Goldman

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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 bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg