Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Platen

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Gellert

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

10.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

11.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

16.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Daniel Akst

18.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

19.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

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

32.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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