Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Canetti, Elias

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Byron, Lord

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Billings, Josh

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Santayana, George

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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 less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Coriolanus III

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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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone