Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

- Pepper, Claude D.

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Truman Capote

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

33.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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 a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Hume, David

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wright, Steven

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William