Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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 cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Woody Allen

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

Landers, Ann

28.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Piatt, Don

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Kempton, Murray