Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Santayana, George

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Austen, Jane

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.