Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

- Hepburn, Katharine

Best Quotes about Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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 but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry