Motivational Quotes

Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

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

McMillan, Terry

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

11.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

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

13.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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

15.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

18.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

19.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

20.

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

Gauguin, Paul

21.

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

22.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

24.

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.

25.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

27.

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

28.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

29.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

30.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

31.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

32.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

33.

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

34.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

35.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

36.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

37.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

42.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

47.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

48.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

49.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

50.

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