Motivational Quotes

Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Cook, Robert A.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Herzen, Alexander

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Landers, Ann

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.