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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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

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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 found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Proverb, German

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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 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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare