Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Life

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Daniel Akst

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Eliot, T. S.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

William Goldman

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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 do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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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

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus