Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

- Propp Jr., Fred

Best Quotes about Life

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Truman Capote

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Santayana, George

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

35.

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Coriolanus III

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.