Motivational Quotes

Life

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Life

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eliot, T. S.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon