Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Camus, Albert

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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 continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

James, William

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin