Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

- Mark Hodder

Best Quotes about Life

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dane, Frank

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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.