Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Calhoun, John C.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

10.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

11.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

13.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

14.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

15.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

20.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

21.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

23.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

27.

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

Sheen, Fulton John

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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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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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

33.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

34.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

35.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

45.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

47.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph