Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Life

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Austen, Jane

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

10.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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 belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Canetti, Elias

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Dryden, John

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily