Motivational Quotes

Life

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

- Markiewicz, William

Best Quotes about Life

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Pasternak, Boris

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Butler, Samuel

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Austen, Jane

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.