Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Pope John XXIII

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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 essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Santayana, George

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor