Motivational Quotes

Life

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

- Gusoff, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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

11.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

12.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

14.

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

Nouwen, Henri

15.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

16.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Pope John XXIII

18.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

19.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

21.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

22.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

23.

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

Lehrer, Tom

24.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

25.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

26.

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

28.

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

Cioran, E. M.

29.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

32.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

33.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

34.

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

35.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Tomlin, Lily

39.

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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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.

41.

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

42.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

43.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Daniel Akst

45.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

48.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

49.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace