Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Heath, David M.

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

27.

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Gurney, Robert

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

33.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Shakespeare, William

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

John Lennon