Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Wickett, Michael

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Lehrer, Tom

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Gable, Clark

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

Kempton, Murray

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand