Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

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

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

34.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Butler, Samuel

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Isaac Asimov

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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