Motivational Quotes

Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Feidelson, Charles

10.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

11.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

12.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

13.

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

Mead, Margaret

14.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

15.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

16.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

17.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

18.

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

Butler, Samuel

19.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

22.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

26.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

27.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

28.

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

Carson, Johnny

29.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

30.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

40.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

45.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

47.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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