Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

William Goldman

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

10.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

11.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

12.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

Camus, Albert

14.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

15.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

18.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

19.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

20.

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

Ward, William A.

21.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

22.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Nouwen, Henri

24.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

25.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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

28.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Fran Lebowitz

30.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

31.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

32.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

33.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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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

36.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Mark Hodder

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

42.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Horace

45.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

46.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

47.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

48.

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

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

50.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.