Motivational Quotes

Life

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

- Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Landers, Ann

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert