Motivational Quotes

Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

- Hopkins, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

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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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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Daniel Akst

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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

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.