Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Linkletter, Art

19.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.