Motivational Quotes

Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

10.

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

11.

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 is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

14.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

15.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

18.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

20.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

21.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Robert Heinlein

23.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

24.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

25.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

28.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

29.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

30.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

31.

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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

38.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

40.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

42.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

43.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane