Motivational Quotes

Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Wright, Steven

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria