Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pliny The Elder

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Fran Lebowitz

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Powell, Robert

11.

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

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Truman Capote

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Foreman, George

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

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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 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

48.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Carlyle, Thomas