Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

- O'Neill, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Butler, Philip

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Gellert

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Isaac Asimov

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George