Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lebowitz, Fran

Best Quotes about Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

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.

11.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

12.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

15.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

16.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

17.

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

19.

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

Butler, Samuel

20.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

21.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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

23.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

25.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

26.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

27.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

29.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

30.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

31.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

32.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

33.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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

35.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

37.

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Lennon, John

39.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

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

Austen, Jane

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

47.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

48.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert