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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Dane, Frank

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

James, William

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

Lin-Chi

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Seneca

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

47.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Pepper, Claude D.