Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Camus, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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)

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

Fran Lebowitz

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Wright, Steven

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare