Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

15.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

28.

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

John Lennon

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Michelangelo

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Dane, Frank

37.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Shields, Carol

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

Camus, Albert

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh