Motivational Quotes

Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Life

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

Truman Capote

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Conrad, Joseph

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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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

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Sir Winston Churchill