Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Landers, Ann

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carson, Johnny

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

43.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Powell, Robert

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell