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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Powell, Robert

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Field, Joanna

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Leno, Jay

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Isaac Asimov

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Landers, Ann

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles