Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dead-end street.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Life

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

James, William

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Austen, Jane

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Landers, Ann

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Gellert

18.

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

Baluch, Joy

19.

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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

24.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Fran Lebowitz

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

31.

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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

36.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dane, Frank

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand