Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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)

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

James, William

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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

11.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Harington, Donald

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

16.

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

17.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

22.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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

28.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

31.

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

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

36.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

41.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Douglas, Michael

47.

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

Socrates

48.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

50.

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