Motivational Quotes

Life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Robert Heinlein

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Dickens, Charles

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Dane, Frank

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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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